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Diverse, active, outspoken, liberal individuals who put their passions at the forefront of their college career.

The people here are open and accepting of all people, it's just that there isn't much racial or political diversity around campus. The administration has been trying to increase the amount of diversity on campus, but it may be a few years before Conn truly transcends the "white and preppy" stereotype. As far as politics go, the vast majority of students are liberal or apathetic, but the politically active students definitely hold passionate opinions about how this country is/should be run.

Conn is made up of a variety of different people. It´s easy for people to find others like themselves: the sailors can find other sailors and the hipsters can find the other hipsters. There is a little bit of segregation amongst types of people, but it´s not too bad. Even though the sports teams are tight and sometimes it seems like the black kids are always together, they don´t exclusively hang out with each other. Anyone can hang out with anyone. I think people´s closest friends tend to be very similar to themselves, but they still have friends who have very different interests. Conn is pretty politically active; most people care about the state of U.S. politics, world events, and social issues. Most kids are politically liberal -- the College Republicans is a very small club.

In my opinion we are a pretty diverse school, and there are plenty of beautiful black women and hot black guys. Typically the black guys get the most sexual play- the white girls love them and they can also get black girls. It's more rare to see a white guy and a black girl, and in my opinion it's also easier to tell the white players from the black players on first glance. I suggest asking upperclass girls what the deal is before you attempt to hook up with an older guy, although they may be lying of course for their own reasons. Financial backgrounds REALLY range from the wealthiest of the wealthy to literally homeless. I'm sure this acts as a lesson to all of us to respect people no matter what background they come from, although depending on your roommate freshman year the situation can be quite uncomfortable. I've heard of instances where one girl in a room is wealthy and the other is not and the one with less money is annoyed by the attitude and flaunting nature of the other.

Liberal, wealthy, New England (particularly Mass), athletic, healthy, politically active

the school is tremendously segregated in terms of race. the dining hall is like a joke with the few black kids we have on one side of the hall, and whites on the other. part of the problem is that minority students have a different orientation program and all these other things just for them, which is nice, but separates them. i feel that conn tries way too hard to be diverse and accepts students who shouldn't be there just because they are minority.

Connecticut College is neither the most racially, nor the most socio-economically diverse community on the planet. Yet it is a very accepting community. The kind of student that would feel most out of place at Conn is one who is openly prejudiced. I would say the student body is predominantly left winged and generally they are politically aware.

I don't have sympathy for students who would feel out of place here. That's because it is impossible if someone tries. If anything, even though diversity is lacking on this campus, minority groups feel accepted and respected here at Conn. You could throw fifty thousand black kids here, and I don't think anyone would say anything, except, "wow, that's a lot of black kids".

Upon arriving at Conn the administration and current students immediately introduce the incoming freshmen to all their electives and groups including groups regarding LGBT, race, religion and tons and tons of others. Students for the most part I would say do tend to look nice when they go to class but there are exceptions and no one is ostracized because of what they wear. There are definitely divisions in Harris. The athletes sit on one side and usually the international students sit on the other and then everyone else is sort of in between. But this division does not seem to bother anybody and usually happens just due to the fact that one side of Harris has longer tables so the athletes sit there to fit their whole team. I do think that there are divisions between the student body but I don't think that it is a hostile division and there are people who overlap in many different groups.

I've been involved in the LGBTQA group on campus, and I have to say, it's really for anyone who wants to have someone to support them. It doesn't matter what orientation you are, they'll accept you no matter what. I really don't think any students would feel out of place at Conn. There is enough diversity that anyone would be able to find their own place. Different groups also come together and interact. The most experience I've had with that is seeing the rugby team interact with the theater kids. The lines blur and everyone basically gets along. Most Conn students seem to be from New England. We have people from California and overseas as well. The most prevalent financial backgrounds are upper middle class people, but there are definitely exceptions. It's not something I've seen come up very much though.